[Mac OS X TeX] Re: BBEdit 6.5 & OzTeX 5.0b7

[Ingo Reich]

Thanks a lot,

the pepper extensions work perfectly (they are syntactically identical 
to the extension proposed by Michael Goldweber), I just had to change 
"Excalibur" to the full path.

Ingo


Am Freitag den, 25. Januar 2002, um 13:33, schrieb Andrew Trevorrow:

> Ingo Reich wrote:
>
>> did anybody successfully install the OzTeX Plug-In from Francois
>> Ladouceur in BBEdit 6.5? ...
>
> As Tom Kiffe said, BBEdit plug-ins must be carbonized to work in the
> OS X version.  I'm not aware of any such plug-ins for OzTeX but you
> might try to contact Ujwal Sathyam (setlur at bigfoot.com) who has also
> worked on BBEdit plug-ins for OzTeX and other apps.
>
>> ... Is there something equivalent available for Pepper?
>
> Yep, John Thoo & Joe Slater sent me some Pepper extensions for OzTeX.
> I'm not sure if they're available anywhere so I've put them on my site:
>
>   ftp://ftp.trevorrow.com/beta/pepperoztexextns.sit  (5K)
>
>> Furthermore, if I uncomment the
>> line
>>
>> text_editor = R*ch     (for BBEdit)
>>
>> in my "local" file in OzTeX 5.0b7 and want to change from OzTeX to
>> BBEdit, I get the error message "Could not find a text editor with this
>> signature: 'R*ch' ". What am I doing wrong??
>
> Probably nothing.  I've had a few other reports like this and I'm
> pretty sure the problem is caused by a bug in the OS X Finder which
> doesn't always update the desktop database file when a new app
> is installed.  (OzTeX looks for your text editor by searching for
> the supplied signature in the desktop database files of all mounted
> volumes.  Nothing particularly tricky is involved -- Apple provide
> high level calls to do most of the work -- so if a search fails
> and yet an app with that sig really does exist then the most likely
> reason is that the desktop database file is incorrect.)
>
> The fix I've been recommending is to reboot in OS 9, hold down the
> option & command keys and rebuild all your desktops.  Note that
> using the Rebuild Desktop button in Classic's Advanced prefs does
> not solve the problem.
>
> Thomas Schröder wrote:
>
>> I had the same problem with OzTeX and  Pepper. I could only resolve 
>> this
>> by rebooting into MacOS 9 and setting Pepper from there as editor. 
>> After
>> returning to MacOS X everything worked fine.
>
> I guess that must also put the app's signature into the desktop 
> database.
> Thanks for that info!
>
> Andrew
>
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